Despite what your pocket watch may tell you, time doesn’t always move forward, and it certainly doesn’t heal all wounds....
It’s been a busy week for slasher fans with not one, but two bold re-imaginings of classic franchise favorites. First,...
Michael Myers returns to Haddonfield for another round of tricks and treats (and murders!) in Halloween Kills, David Gordon Green’s follow-up to his 2018 slasher revamp Halloween. Like every slasher sequel that came before it, Halloween Kills features a higher body count, a whole host of new characters, and a deeper exploration...
Titane is the femme-powered cannon that’s been taking the festival season by storm, and rightly so. Written and directed by...
The “Final Girl” has been a prominent trope in horror since it was popularized in the 1970s in films like...
Haunted houses, nightmare imagery, and ghostly gypsies are on full display in Vincent Grashaw’s eerie slow-burn What Josiah Saw. Divided into four self-contained segments, this farmhouse freakshow features some of the most effective scares I’ve seen all year and a score that is sure to haunt my dreams for nights...
M. Night Shyamalan’s Old turns an idyllic family vacation into a living nightmare when a group of strangers find themselves...
A remake, 65 million years in the making. I know, I know. The high dollar film industry is drowning in...
You can always count on Tribeca Film Festival to feature a few true weirdos. Movies that challenge, expand, or downright destroy the ideas we have of genre conventions. This year, one of those films is Ultrasound. The feature directorial debut of Rob Schroeder, Ultrasound pushes storytelling to its limits, culminating in a slow-burn psychological...
An eating disorder threatens to consume a young jazz singer in Samantha Smith’s Shapeless. Celebrating its world premiere at 2021...
Agnes is not quite like any other possession movie you’ve likely seen. It follows a lot of the same beats...
Demon possession movies, although constant crowd-pleasers, are often very predictable. The multi-million dollar Conjuring franchise has pretty much laid out the groundwork for what a modern possession movie “should” look like, but occasionally a film like Mickey Reece’s Agnes comes along to challenge that well-worn template. Directed by Reece from...